Australians pay the price for businesses’ ‘brazen support of Chinese propaganda’

Sky News contributor Cory Bernardi says Philanthropy in Australia hit new levels of farce when billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest was “played like a propaganda puppet by the Chinese Communist Party”.

At a government press conference to announce the purchase of 10 million COVID-19 testing kits from China by Andrew Forrest's philanthropic Minderoo foundation, Mr Forrest invited the Chinese Consul-General to speak seemingly without notifying Health Minister Greg Hunt.

Mr Bernardi said the announcement was in actual fact a non-tendered government procurement contract worth $100 million and had “nothing to do with the philanthropy at all”.

“We the taxpayer are picking up the tab for Twiggy’s latest grandstanding not to mention we are all paying a much greater national price due to brazen support for the CCP propaganda machine”.